The Heroic Trio

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    Office Space is a modern, Hollywood-driven adaptation of Herman Melville’s 1853 short story “Bartleby.” It revives Melville’s story by imagining modern equivalents for the major themes and characters of the original. Whiling comparing the works of Office Space and “Bartleby”, many similarities and differences are shown. Although years passed between the creation of the classic short story and the film, they both possess similarities in plot, theme, and character development. “Bartleby” begins in

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    and the genre markers inherent in my trailer. The trailer will be set in a haunted asylum, three film students will investigate the mental hospital to dismiss the rumours in a documentary format, it of course turns out the rumours are true and the trio need to try and escape the asylum with their lifes still intact. I chose the unisex young adult market for my trailer, persons aged 15 to 25. I also had to decide on what genre markers would be present in my trailer. The trailer is of course an advertisement

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    Batman Begins

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    How do you follow up the best superhero movie ever? Christopher Nolan presented that challenge to himself when he decided to make a sequel to Batman Begins. Usually, sequels do not surpass the original, and whatever followed Batman Begins seemed poised to fail compared to its predecessor. To answer the opening question, you make The Dark Knight, a movie that validated the superhero genre as a real, serious category and showed that sequels can outshine the original. The Dark Knight takes place after

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    Wilhelm Richard Wagner (German, 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, known for its opera and Musical. He is not only a composer, but also a theatre director and polemicist. He was a pivotal figure in the history of German opera Front undertake Mozart, Beethoven’s opera tradition, turned back the trend of post-romanticism opera composer Richard Strauss followed. At the same time, because he was the complexity of the political, religious thought, has become the most controversial

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    Gus Van Sant's Elephant

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    Van Sant’s film represents the reality of high school, focusing on the look of its beauty, characters, while also ignoring the basic grime inherent on most campuses. Van Sant takes pride in portraying a valuable image. What’s in the room really touches you if it is closely examined. The hallways and the fields of the school are in pristine condition, staying abnormally clean, almost too clean for a school. Despite this seeming glorification of the building, the hallways are kept as a constant

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    A Short Research Paper on LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN MUS 1030 Walters State Community College Robbie Poteete, Instructor NIC NIX APRIL 22, 2016 Although there have been many famous composers over the years, probably none are as well-known as Ludwig van Beethoven. Regardless of one’s particular preference of musical style, almost everyone can quickly recognize Fur Elise, Moonlight Sonata, Ode to Joy, or Symphony 5. Beethoven “was born during the age of the Enlightenment, came to maturity during

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    Catcher In The Rye

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    Holden, too young to be at the club, pursues three older women because he "Really felt like dancing." (70) (which can be another example of a superficial explanation to avoid admitting how much he needed companionship), and is quickly laughed at by the trio. Salinger writes, "I sort of leaned over and said, 'Would any of you girls care to dance?' I didn't ask them crudely or anything. Very suave, in fact. But God damn it, they thought that was a panic, too. They started giggling some more. I'm not kidding

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    ‘All men are afraid in battle,’ said General Patton. ‘The coward is the one who lets fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.’ How do Pat Barker and Kurt Vonnegut address the theme of masculinity in war? Masculinity in war is a key theme explored in both Slaughterhouse 5 and Regeneration. It is expressed as a characterisation that is not preserved and that is continuously changing. The authors use soldiers who begin to doubt their masculinity which is of utmost important

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    Introduction Beethoven was a German composer (1770-1827). His early achievements, as composer and performer, show him to be extending the Viennese Classical tradition that he had inherited from Mozart and Haydn (Kerman). The time period between 1801 to 1802, Beethoven had begun to realize that he was gradually becoming deaf. The immediate results of this devastating discover was withdrawal from his glittering social life: “I find it impossible to say to people, I am deaf,” he wrote (Taruskin).

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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig Van Beethoven are one of the most famous composers known in western music. Both Mozart and Beethoven music are known for its harmony and melodies. Not only were they inspired by other composers to create such music, their music inspired people from all over the world. Ludwig Van Beethoven was a German composer who was also deaf and known for his musical figure in the traditional period between the classical and romantic era. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was an Austrian

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